I think I *might* be able to provide part of the solution to this. I have in my posession here a TK50 tape hand-labeled "4.3 Tahoe BSD". Let me upload it to my directory on Minnie, and maybe with some help from you guys we'll figure out what's in it. It has been at least a year since I've looked at the contents of this tape, but I was under the impression that it consisted mainly of binaries, and had very little in the way of sources on it. I'll put images of the tape files on Minnie (hmm - a full TK50 will probably be an overnight job) and with a little luck we'll figure out how to make the next step. (I didn't know that this was a sought-after tape in the first place!) I honestly don't know if this is a VAX Tahoe distribution or for something else (MIPS, maybe?). It did fail to boot on my KA650 when I tried it, but your notes indicate that this was to be expected because it wasn't a KA630. And browsing through the contents of the tape does seem to indicate that it might be for the VAX. The tape has 4 files on it, about 50 Megabytes uncompressed, organized as follows: File 1: 1 record, 512 bytes. File 2: 205 records, 10240 bytes each. File 3: 320 records, 10240 bytes each. File 4: 2135 records, 20480 bytes each. The first block has no obvious text in it. Obvious guess is a boot block :-) The second file appears to be an executable of some sort. Running "strings" against it turns up evidence that this is some sort of standalone utility that knows how to write to devices with names like "ra1", "hp3", etc. The third file is, I would guess, the dump of a root file system. The string "/dev/ra1a" and machine name "kerberos.berkeley.edu" turn up near the beginning, and the dump of what appears to be the "/dev" directory has names such as tu0, tu1, hp0a-hp0g, rhp0a-rhp0g, etc. The fourth file is a tar archive, and appears to contain mainly binaries, with little in the way of sources. The are links in the tar archive to things like "/sys/vaxuba", "/sys/vax", etc., but the /sys directory itself isn't in the tar archive. (Would this possibly be in the third file, which I guessed is a dump of the root filesystem? The other BSD- derived distributions that I'm familiar with do not have "/sys" or "/usr/src/sys" in the root filesystem!) -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA12866 for pups-liszt; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 08:41:48 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f